Structure of the Pakistan Army

The structure of the Pakistan Army is based on two distinct themes: operational and administrative. Operationally the Pakistan Army is divided into nine corps and three corps-level formations with areas of responsibility ranging from the mountainous regions of the north to the desert and coastal regions of the south. Administratively it is divided in several regiments. The General Headquarters of the Army is located in Rawalpindi in Punjab province.

Army headquarters and staff

The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), formerly called the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C of the Pakistan Army), is challenged with the responsibility of commanding the Pakistan Army. The COAS operates from army headquarters in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. The Principal Staff Officers assisting him in his duties at the lieutenant general level include:

Post	Name
Chief of the Army Staff concurrently Chief of Defence Forces	Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah
Chief of the General Staff	Lieutenant General Syed Aamer Raza
Chief of Logistics Staff	Lieutenant General Inayat Hussain
Inspector General Arms	Lieutenant General Sarfraz Ahmed
Adjutant General	Lieutenant General Azhar Waqas
Quarter Master General	Lieutenant General Hassan Khattak
Military Secretary	Lieutenant General Amer Ahsan Nawaz
Master-General of Ordnance	TBA
Inspector General Training & Evaluation	Lieutenant General Aamer Najam
Inspector General Communications and Information Technology	Lieutenant General Muhammad Aqeel
Engineer-in-Chief	Lieutenant General Kashif Nazir

The Military Operations and Intelligence Directorates function under the Chief of General Staff (CGS). A major reorganization in GHQ was done in September 2008 under General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, when two new PSO positions were introduced: the Inspector General Arms and the Inspector General Communications and IT, thus raising the number of PSO's to eight.
The headquarters function also includes the Judge Advocate General, and the Controller of Civilian Personnel, the Chief of the Corps of Engineers who is also head of Military Engineering Service, all of them also report to the Chief of the Army Staff.

Operational structure

Corps

There are nine corps and three corps-level formations.

Logo/War flag	Corps	HQ Location	Current Commander	Major Corps Formations
	I Corps	Mangla, Azad Kashmir	Lieutenant General Nauman Zakaria	6th Armoured Division 17th Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division
	II Corps	Multan, Punjab	Lieutenant General Ahsan Gulrez	1st Armoured Division 40th Infantry Division
	IV Corps	Lahore, Punjab	Lieutenant General Syed Fayyaz Hussain Shah	10th Infantry Division 11th Infantry Division
	V Corps	Karachi, Sindh	Lieutenant General Avais Dastagir	16th Infantry Division 18th Infantry Division 25th Mechanized Division
	X Corps	Rawalpindi, Punjab	Lieutenant General Shahid Imtiaz	Force Command Northern Areas 12th Infantry Division 19th Infantry Division 23rd Infantry Division 34th [Light Infantry Division]
	XI Corps	Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Lieutenant General Syed Omer Ahmed Bokhari	7th Infantry Division, 9th Infantry Division
	XII Corps	Quetta, Balochistan	Lieutenant General Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan	33rd Infantry Division 41st Infantry Division 44th Light Infantry Division
	XXX Corps	Gujranwala, Punjab	Lieutenant General Syed Imdad Hussain Shah	8th Infantry Division 15th Infantry Division
	XXXI Corps	Bahawalpur, Punjab	Lieutenant General Muhammad Aqeel	14th Infantry Division 26th Mechanized Division 35th Infantry Division
	Air Defence Command (Pakistan)\|Air Defence]	Rawalpindi, Punjab	Lieutenant General Muhammad Zafar Iqbal	3rd Air Defence Division 4th Air Defence Division
	Strategic Forces Command (Pakistan)\|Strategic Forces]	Rawalpindi, Punjab	Lieutenant General Shehbaz Khan	2nd Artillery Division 21st Artillery Division Strategic Forces North Strategic Forces South
	Aviation	Rawalpindi, Punjab	Major General Saeed Niazi	101 Avn Group 202 Avn Group 303 Avn Group 404 Avn Group 505 Avn Group 606 Avn Group

Regional formations

In Pakistani military terminology, the regional commands are the temporary military formations that are structure based upon the conventional corps, and troop rotations are constant and varies based on the Pakistani war strategists' calculations. The regional commands are led by the three-star rank general officer whose staff includes numbers of general officers.
In past, the Eastern Command was organized at a corps-level conventional formation in East Pakistan, consisting of the 9th Infantry Division, 14th Infantry Division, and 16th Infantry Division. These divisions are still active duty with their respected Regiments. To further support the Eastern Command, the 36th Adhoc Division and 39th Adhoc Division were commissioned to support the paramilitary units and police; and subsequently decommissioned after Eastern Command was de-activated.
To address the challenges and issues faced by the Cold Start strategy of Indian Army, the army formed regional commands to protect the North—South regions by establishing the first the Southern Command in 1999 and later the Northern Command in 2008. Other active regional formations includes the Army Strategic Forces Command and the Army Air Defence Command that serves as a platform of missile defense.
Regional formational commands

Administrative structure

The Pakistan Army is organised in two main ways, which are Arms and Services.